April 4, 2020
To the quiet cities
And the empty subways
To the once-sparkling
skylines
That have now gone dark
To the world of people
Living indoors
And on the edge of their
seat
Look at the way
Sunlight reflects
On puddles of fresh rain
Did it always shine like
that?
Remember the sound of
applause
A thousand feet sharing the
same floor
When six feet apart
Was a foreign concept
And we packed ourselves
tightly and
With reckless abandon
Into trains and concert
halls and movie theaters
How could we not see it
then?
We did not recognize
The simple wonder
Of countless voices
speaking at once
A sea of faces filling the
sidewalks
Spilling out onto the
street
And now we are islands
Solitary and afraid
Weathering a storm that
seems to have no end
Perhaps not alone
But lonely nonetheless
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